DEAR MUTTON.

NZ Truth, Issue 685, 27 July 1918, Page 6

DEAR MUTTON.

Three pounds sterling for one sheep! That price was paid at the Addington yards last week by some of our local butchers m the scramble resulting from a short-stocked market. The snowfall m the outlying districts brought about a big deficiency m the usual number of sheep fit for killing, so that there were not nearly enough to go round, less than half the supply necessary to the filling of normal city and suburban requirements being on offer. The position was so acute that the Master Butchers' Association asked that butchers bo given facilities for obtaining supplies of mutton from the freezing works, which are packed from floors to ceilings with thousands of carcases awaiting shipment. Mr. Reakes Immediately replied to the effest' that permits for the obtaining of such beef, mutton and lamb, as was required, would be granted upon application being made to him; so the situation has been saved. Father will still have his chops for breakfast, right off the ice. It will be Interesting to -natch the effect that this releasing of'imperial beef and mutton will have upon the Addington market, as there is every prospect of a continuance of last week's shortage. It is quite possible, even though this be an age of luxury, that most people will prefer chops from a frozen imperial sheep to cutlets from a £8 Addington one.